raid

See also: RAID and ráid

English

Etymology

From Scots raid (obsolete after Middle English but revived in the 19th-century by Walter Scott), from Old English rād ( > English road).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

raid (plural raids)

1. (military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle
   • Sir Walter Scott

     Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.

   • H. Spenser

     There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.

2. An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering

   a police raid of a narcotics factory

   a raid of contractors on the public treasury

   • 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman^[1]:

     For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.

3. (online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
4. (sports) An attacking movement.
   • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport^[2]:

     The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.

Synonyms

• (hostile or predatory invasion): attack, foray, incursion
• (attack or invasion for making arrests, seizing property, or plundering): irruption

Translations

attack for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering

• Arabic: غَارَة‏‎ f (ḡāra), غَزْوَة‏‎ f (ḡazwa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 襲擊 (zh), 袭击 (zh) (xíjī), 突擊搜查, 突击搜查 (tūjī sōuchá)

• Danish: razzia c
• Finnish: ratsia (fi), rynnäkkö (fi)
• French: raid (fr) m, razzia (fr) f, descente (fr) f
• German: Razzia (de) f, Überfall (de) m
• Greek: επιδρομή (el) f (epidromí), καταδρομή (el) f (katadromí), έφοδος (el) f (éfodos)
• Hungarian: razzia (hu)
• Italian: incursione f, razzia (it) f, irruzione (it) f, rapina (it) f, attacco (it) m

• Japanese: 襲撃 (ja) (しゅうげき, shūgeki)
• Malay: serbuan
• Maori: tukinga, upokotaua
• Polish: najście n, najazd (pl) m
• Portuguese: invasão (pt) f, ataque (pt) m, buscas (pt)
• Russian: рейд (ru) m (rejd), налёт (ru) m (naljót), обла́ва (ru) f (obláva)
• Spanish: invasión (es) f, ataque (es) m, asedio (es) m, redada (es) f
• Swahili: uvamizi (sw)
• Swedish: räd (sv) c
• Turkish: baskın (tr)

Verb

raid (third-person singular simple present raids, present participle raiding, simple past and past participle raided)

1. To engage in a raid.

   The police raided the gambling den.

   The soldiers raided the village and burned it down.

2. To steal from; pillage

   Penniless and desperate, she raided the contents of his purse.

3. To lure from another; to entice away from
4. (archaic) To indulge oneself by taking from

Translations

to engage in a raid

• German: überfallen (de)
• Maori: whakatoke, konihi

• Turkish: baskın yapmak (tr)

Anagrams

• Dari, arid, dira, riad

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English raid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛd/

Noun

raid m (plural raids)

1. (military) raid

Anagrams

• dira, rida

Further reading

• “raid” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English raid.

Noun

raid m (invariable)

1. raid, incursion
2. long-distance race or rally

Anagrams

• ardi, ardì, dari, dirà, radi, rida, ridà

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Scots

Etymology

From (a Northern form of) Old English rād (“riding, road”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /red/

Noun

raid (plural raids)

1. raid

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English raid.

Noun

raid m (plural raids)

1. raid (military)
2. attempt
3. long-distance race